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The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. For over three generations, the Academy has connected millions of people to great poetry through programs such as National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world; Poets.org, the Academy’s popular website; American Poets, a biannual literary journal; and an annual series of poetry readings and special events. Since its founding, the Academy has awarded more money to poets than any other organization.

The Poet Homes of Key WestJessie Porter's exotic garden became the center of Key West society, and artists and writers frequently gathered there, including Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Archibald MacLeish, and Thornton Wilder.

William Carlos Williams's HometownSurrounding the poet's home were flower gardens that Williams passionately tended to in his spare time. Many flowers, whether from his garden or in local fields, appear in his poems, including daisies, primroses, Queen Anne's lace, and tulips.

The Carl Sandburg CottageThe flora around the house were carefully chosen to maintain the appearance of Sandburg's childhood and include daisies, black-eyed Susans, yarrow, and phlox. Behind the cottage, there is a small wooden park with a perennial garden and a red granite boulder known as Remembrance Rock where the ashes of Carl Sandburg and his wife are buried.

The Graves of PoetsLongtime civil rights advocate Dorothy Parker's ashes were scattered in a memorial garden created in her name at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland.

Poems about Flowers

The Satyr's Heartby Brigit Pegeen KellyNow I rest my head on the satyr's carved chest...

"I terraced our hillside plot of sand facing the bay," explains poet and gardener Stanley Kunitz, "and began to invent a garden that continues to this day to occupy me as a work of imagination still in progress. 'Stanley's Folly' is Elise's name for it. Provincetown, I might add, is a place where one is permitted to indulge in one's follies." Read the entire interview >